Description: Roxbury Community College suffers from budget cut, enrollment drop, and chiefly a crisis of confidence in president Walter Howard. Students rally to save the school. Campus, photo of Howard.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/15/1991
Description: Leslie Harris, an attorney with Roxbury Defenders Committee, describes his work seeking justice for those accused, sometimes unfairly, by police in the street drug war. Lawyers in conference room.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/04/1990
Description: Public defender Leslie Harris spends typical day in Roxbury District Court in administrative runaround and ushering client through bail hearing. Judge Julian Houston. Sound of door slamming.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/05/1990
Description: Public defender Leslie Harris talks about confusion of getting cases through Roxbury District Court. This includes delays; missing defendants, witnesses and victims; making deals with prosecutors. Courtroom.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/06/1990
Description: Alexander Dawoody, Kurdish political refugee from Iraq, wants Saddam Hussein eliminated. Middle East expert Feroz Ahmad explains Saddam's staying power through paradox of brutality and welfare.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/19/1991
Description: Five scientists talk about the cost of high tech weapons and the losses incurred in diverting expertise from social welfare and consumer goods. Victor Weisskopf, Vera Kistiakowsky.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/22/1991
Description: Day after election, John Silber holds press conference in which he is bitter about Natalie Jacobson interview and Ray Flynn's absence, and generally vindictive.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/07/1990
Description: Vietnamese and Cambodian refugee students excel at private Cathedral High. If general relief fund which supports them is cut, their education will be in jeopardy. Southeast Asian names on honor roll.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/09/1991
Description: As many as 25,000 Cambodians, Laotians, and Vietnamese make up Southeast Asian community in Lowell. Mayor Richard Howe tells how this burdens schools & services. Cambodian newscast on cable tv.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/07/1991
Description: Springfield considers Prop 2 1/2 override to avoid layoffs, continue city services. Mayor Mary Hurley. Voting booth. Springfield police patch. File of police union picket @Democratic convention.Skyline,streets
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/12/1990